What is the best merc for Pally? (Medic Pally)

[Willund]

What is the best merc for Pally? (Medic Pally)

[Willund]

ok howbout any Paladin....

[Laharl]

The best merc for a medic pally is prayer.

Using:
Pride,
Thorns,
pheonix,
v gaze.

^All eth.

[Willund]

Prayer merc? Which is that? Is a rune item required?

[Laharl]

The prayer merc is one of the second act mercs. I think it's the combat one in norm.

[i play with blizz]

ive never seen a medic pally do they jsut sit around useing redemtion? can someone post up a guide i wanna make one?

[Laharl]

BFH's Super Medic Guide

[Willund]

lvl 85 Pally
Stats with gear:
Str: 192
Dex: 179
Vit: 304
Energy: 22
Life: 1169
Mana: 458

Skills with gear:
Defensive tree:
Prayer: 28
Definace: 9
clensing: 9
Meditation: 10
Vigor: 9
Redemption: 9
Salvation: 12

Offensive Tree:
9 in all
Fanat: 18

Combat Tree:
sac: 9
Smite: 10
Charge: 9
Holy bolt: 28
Zeal: 11
holy Shield: 28

Its very obvious that its a very scattered build. But I can tackle normal and Nm with no problem...and I can do fairly well throughout hell.

Gear:
Andys Visage
Azure Wrath
Skins of Viper
Spirit Monarch
Frostys
Ravens
Rare Ammy (+2 pally +19 str +34% cold res)
Waterwalks
Iks Belt
Few Str,dex,res charms

Holy Bolt Heals 220-456 health
I heal 41 life per 2 secs. with 525% mana recov.
MY Zeal does about 2000 dmg with decent Ar.
I also have a 1000 dmg smite...if its needed to hit through Def of some kind...who knows.

All around, its a rough and horribly-planned charactar...but even with its midlvl heal, and semi-effective melee, Party members I meet are glad to have me aboard. I definetly recommend this build

[Willund]

I should give credit to SwornEnemy for the above

[Willund]

Oops no sorry Berious (lol)

[Willund]

Actually, why would I want prayer merc when the point of being a medic (healer) is to heal with my own prayer (via cleansing or meditation)??? Any other suggestions? Anyone?

[Laharl]

Because with my build it exploits the fact that cleansing, meditation AND prayer stack! You'll get triple the healing. My build actually heals much more than the other builds I've seen around here, too.

[Willund]

Whoa. Did not know that.

Looking at your build again, can hammers be replaced with H. Shock to enhance FoH or do u really need hammers to survive? I really dont like hammers.

And I like to max Meditation to give +1500% mana regen to low lvls I rush, they get a kick out of it and it is one of the things that makes the build fun. Any way to get that kind of Meditation? I have been told by high lvl Sorcs that they do not need it, but whatever.

And to the best of my memory the A2 mercs are:
Def - Defiance
Off - Blessed Aim (?)
Com - Might

But I have seen the Prayer merc b4, do the mercs change auras in Nm and Hell?

[Willund]

And abut Cleansing, I like to keep it at 1 point, after +skill items I still get lvl 25-30 out of it. Or does it need to be maxed for synergies? If so please explain.

[Laharl]

I actually encourage editing all my builds so that they better fit your needs, and yes it can! That's actually a good idea!

I prefer to max out cleansing, because it'll reduce curse/poison time by a very drastic amount while having a massive aura. What you don't put anything into, though, is meditation. AVOID it.

[Willund]

Maybe I'll put 1 pt into Meditation then and max R. Lightning to enhance H. Shock?
So:
20 R. Lightning enhances H. Shock (good dmg!)
20 H. Shock enhances FoH (good dmg!)
20 H. Bolt enhances FoH (great dmg!)
20 Prayer
1 Ceansing - like I said, great resist (something like 86%) and great range @ lvl 26-27 after +skill items
Then maybe the rest into Defiance and H. Shield? With synergies and +skill items that would give you great Smiting and ok Hammering ability. Or maybe Sanctuary to blast the occasional Burning Soul and pretty much waste tombs (but then thats where max Cleansing would come in handy!!! ooooh I will think about this one.....). Then not to mention all the pre-reqs....

[Willund]

So then back to the original Q - what would be the best merc for the above build? Prayer merc still?

[Laharl]

Yes, but don't waste any skill points in meditation! It would be overlapped by your insight!

[Willund]

So how do I get the Prayer merc? Im positive about the merc abilities - prayer is not one of them, at least in norm difficulty. Ive tried alot. Is it an item then?

[Darth-Laoshi]

Are you to lazy to look up Arreat Summit??

Prayer merc = normal & hell mode a2 combat